Whiffletree-hook.



A. S. OHENOWETH.

WHIFFLETREE HOOK.

APPLICATION PI'LED JAN. 23, 1911.

1,016,248, I Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

- Inventor Attorneys ALLEN S. CHENOWE'IH, OF STILESVILLE, INDIANA.

WHIFFLETREE-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

Application filed January 23, 1911. Serial No. 604,150.

To all who 1m it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN S. CHENowETn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Stilesville, in the county of Morgan and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Whifiietree-Hook, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has relation to whiflietree hooks and consists in thenovel configuration hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide in combination with awhittletree a hook adapted to be securely positioned upon the tree andheld against accidental displacement therefrom. The said hook serves asmeans for attaching the swingletree to the whiffietree and also servesas connecting means for the stay chain.

The hook includes an approximately rectangular shank which receiveswithin its perimeter the end portion of the whittletree, the whiflietreebeing provided at its rear edge with a vertically disposed grooveadapted to receive one side of the said shank. An eye is formed at therear side of the shank and is adapted to be connected with the staychain while a bill is formed at the other end of the shank and isadapted to be connected with the clevis eye of'the swingletree. I

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a top plan view of awhifiletree with swingletrees attached thereto by means of the improvedhook. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the whiffletree showing the hook inposition thereon. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of the hook.

The whifi letree 1 is provided at its rear edge and in the vicinity ofits ends with vertically disposed recesses 2. The forward corners of thewhifiletree 1 are rounded OK as at 3, the said round surfacesapproximately having the centers of the recesses 2 as the centers oftheir arcs.

The whiflletree hook is provided with an approximately rectangular openshank 4 the rear side of which is received in one of the recesses 2.When the rear side of the shank 4 is so inserted in the said recess theshank 1 may be swung around so that its forward side is in front of theforward edge of the whitfletree 1 and the bill 5 of the hook is alsolocated in front of the forward edge of the said whii'fletree. Thus theend portion of the whiffletree is received within the shank 1 and therear side of the said shank is received within the recess 2 of thewhiflietree. Prionto swinging the hook around in the manner asindicated, a clevis 9 is engaged with the bill 5 of the hook and thesaid clevis in turn is connected with a swingletree 10. the shank 4.-and is adapted to be engaged by a hook 7 forming a component part of thestay chain 8.

The whittletree hook is formed of a continuous rod and as illustrated inFig. 3 the rod is formed at one end with an eye 11 which is located atthe corner of the shank 4. From said eye the rod is continued around tothe forward portion of the shank 4 then continued throughout the bill 5of the hook and carried around forming the remainder of the shank 4 andis passed through the eye 11 and the eye 6 is formed at its extremity.In this form of the invention it is necessary to resort to welding attwo places only and these places occur at the ends of the rod where theyabut against the sides of the eyes 6 and 11 respectively.

Having described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is 1. In combination with a whiflletree having at itsrear edge a rearwardly open recess, the opposite end being rounded atits corner, of a hook formed from a single rod having an open shank, therod being formed into a bill at one end of the shank and an extremity ofthe rod passing through an eye at the corner of the shank and formedinto an eye behind the rear side of the shank, the rod of the hookfitting in the recess of the whittletree so that the shank of the hooksurrounds the whiffietree and has its hook extending from the oppositeside to the recess.

2. A whifiietree hook formed from a single red having an openshank, therod being formed into a bill at one end of the shank and an extremity ofthe rod passing through an eye at the corner of the shank and formedinto an eye behind the rear side of the shank.

An eye 6 is formed at the rear side of i In testimony that I claim theforegoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signaturein the presenceof two witnesses.

ALLEN S. GHENOVVETH. IVitnesses:

EMERY E. BLUNK, SILAM S. STALEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of latents, Washington, D. G.

